Exhibit 930 ยท Congressional report
Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program: Foreword, Findings and Conclusions, and Executive Summary, S. Rpt. 113-288
a proposal from Senator Carl Levin to establish an independent commission to investigate U.S. detention policies and allegations of detainee abuse resulted in concern at the CIA that such a commission would lead to the discovery of videotapes documenting CIA interrogations. That concern prompted renewed interest at the CIA to destroy the videotapes.
The declassified executive summary of the Committee's study of the CIA program, with the Chairman's foreword and findings. It records that the study grew out of an investigation into the CIA's 2005 destruction of the interrogation videotapes. Section E on pages 443 and 444 states that Senator Levin's proposal for an independent commission prompted CIA concern that a commission would discover the videotapes, that the concern prompted renewed interest in destroying them, that Levin's amendment failed on 8 November 2005, and that the CIA destroyed the tapes the next day. Footnote 2488 quotes a CIA email of 31 October 2005 and a senior CIA attorney's reply. The CIA's proposed redactions to the public text are described in footnote 6 on page 10.
- Source
- United States Senate, Select Committee on Intelligence
- Date
- 9 December 2014
- Quoted from
- Executive Summary, Findings and Conclusions, section E, p. 443 (of 499); the sentence dating the destruction is at p. 444: "Senator Levin's amendment to establish the commission failed on November 8, 2005. The CIA destroyed the CIA interrogation videotapes the following day."
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRPT-113srpt288/pdf/CRPT-113srpt288.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit